UFOMYST
CaseFireball2012

Holly Springs, NC, USA

12 bright orange orbs moving across sky below clouds 1 min apart same exact path, then reduce color brightness, slow down accross sky.

Report quality: Moderate55/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-18
Where
Holly Springs, NC, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 hour
Geo
35.651, -78.834 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-holly-springs-nc-2012-425070
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

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In context

  • This is one of 6 reports logged in Holly Springs, NC.
  • This case is one of 249 North Carolina reports filed in 2012.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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